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garget
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun garget has 1 sense
- garget(n = noun.plant) phytolacca americana, pigeon berry, poke, scoke - tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous; Array is a kind of pokeweed
CIDE DICTIONARY
garget, n. [OE. garget, gargate, throat, OF. gargate. Cf. Gorge. The etymol. of senses 2, 3, & 4 is not certain.].
- The throat. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- A diseased condition of the udders of cows, etc., arising from an inflammation of the mammary glands. [1913 Webster]
- A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite. Youatt. [1913 Webster]
- See Poke. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
garget, n.
1 inflammation of a cow's or ewe's udder.
2 US pokeweed.
1 inflammation of a cow's or ewe's udder.
2 US pokeweed.
Etymology
perh. f. obs. garget throat f. OF gargate, -guete
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